What You Do:Carefully wash strawberries and pat dry with paper towels. Remove the stems from the berries.

Using a small paring knife, core the center of each berry being careful to leave the bottom in tact.Fill a plastic baggie with the cheesecake filling. Fill each berry with cheesecake continuing on top of berry with a pretty design.

Line a small baking sheet with wax paper.

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt dipping chocolate at 30-second intervals until chocolate is smooth and creamy. Dip each strawberry into chocolate, covering 3/4 of the berry. Lay on baking sheet. Fill a second plastic baggie with chocolate and drizzle over the berries in a pretty design. Chill. Bring to room temperature before serving.

40 comments:

Janie
said...

Wow, yum is all I can say. It reminds me of just last New Year's, when my husband and I were reduced by a chocolate craving to making fondu with the leftover Christmas stocking Hershey kisses, lol!Hey, I just replied to your Oz post too on my blog.Janie, magicbookshelfonline.com

Jenna, I'm sorry that I didn't see your question sooner. No, I wouldn't make these more than an hour ahead of time. Any more than that I would be afraid that the cream cheese filling would start to seperate because of the juice in the strawberries.

I made these last night - I never read the comments regarding the cream cheese filling/juice issue - but they look great today (refrigerated of course) and my grown son said they tasted great - we'll know what the reaction is from the party I made them from...later.

The strawberries should be ok as long as they are refrigerated. It's when they are room temp. that the juices in the strawberries will start to run, and then after a while it might start curdling the cream cheese.

These are beautiful..I'd love to try these sometime. What do you consider "dipping chocolate?" Can you be more specific about that..exactly what you use? Do you use some type of piping bag/tip to get the fancy swirls?

someone up above said it would be good with white chocolate. what would make it even better for valentines day and all is if you melt that white chocolate and then add alittle red foor coloring and it turn pink. thats what i do for frosting and chocolate when im decorating cupcakes. its just for the look, doesn't do anything to the taist. give it a try. and if someone already said this, sorry, i didn't read all the comments.

These look so yummy. I had something similar at a Pampered Chef party but they didn't look as delicious as yours in the picture. However the cream cheese filling was made as above with cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla. They sprinkled Maple Flavoured crushed nuts (just a little on the Cream Cheese for a garnish. Awesome. Can I say that the whole plate of these tasties was gone in a split second, leaving us wanting more!

I made these for my husbands & my "special night" but I added one little thing.... I put some Graham crackers in the food processor and lightly poured the tops of the cheesecake filing in it..... Needles to say he was HAPPY with the results :)

Im making these for my bf for Valentines day, then leaving them for him in the am before I go to work, so he wakes up to a treat. How soon in advance can I make these for them to still be good, if I keep them refrigerated? Im new at this cooking stuff.. ;-)